Newborn Hearing Screening Tech BIDMC (20 hours)
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Job Location:
Boston, NH - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 20 - 27
Posted on:
19 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
When you join the growing BILH team youre not just taking a job youre making a difference in peoples lives.
Newborn Hearing Screening Tech performs hearing screening on newborns using an automated computer-based screener reports results to parents and clinicians arranges post-discharge follow-up as needed and assists with database management.This position is fully onsite and located at BIDMC East Campus. The ideal candidate will have prior healthcare or newborn experience; however candidates without direct healthcare experience who are currently studying nursing or another healthrelated field will also be considered. Shift availability is required seven days a week with flexibility in the specific days worked. Shifts average four hours in length.
Job Description:
Essential Responsibilities:
- Accurately identifies locates and transports newborns who need hearing screenings. Prepares babies for testing and performs automated auditory brainstem response tests.
- Document hearing screening results in the medical record. Appropriately informs nursery staff physicians and parents of hearing screening results. Schedules follow-up hearing evaluations as needed.
- Identifies the need for limited equipment maintenance. Maintains supply distribution to multiple equipment locations.
- Assists in hearing screening data and database management.
- Performs daily charge entry into the clinical computing system.
Required Qualifications:
- High School diploma or GED required. Bachelors degree preferred.
- 0-1 years of related work experience required.
- Experience with computer systems required including web-based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint or Access.
Competencies:
- Written Communications:Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with internal and external customers.
- Oral Communications:Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff patients families and external customers.
- Knowledge:Ability to demonstrate basic knowledge of fundamental concepts practices and procedures with the ability to use them in routine situations. Specialized knowledge not required.
- Team Work:Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve the operations of immediate work group by offering ideas identifying issues and respecting team members.
- Customer Service:Ability to provide a high level of customer service to patients visitors staff and external customers in a professional service-oriented respectful manner using skills in active listening and problem solving. Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
Physical Nature of the Job:
Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force frequently to move objects. Some elements of the job are sedentary but the employee will be required to stand for periods of time or move throughout the hospital campus
Pay Range:
$20.50 - $27.59The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors that may include seniority education training relevant experience relevant certifications geographyof work location job responsibilities or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials call pay premium pay overtime pay and other additional pay practices as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.
As a health care organization we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
More than 35000 people working together. Nurses doctors technicians therapists researchers teachers and more making a difference in patients lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
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